After their vacation affair leaves her pregnant, librarian Lulu Smith (Barbara Stanwyck) learns that attorney Bob Grover (Adolphe Menjou) is unable to divorce his invalid wife. Keeping the child's origins a secret, Lulu finds work with newspaperman Al Holland (Ralph Bellamy). Yet, after Bob rises to become mayor and the two secretly resume their affair, his wife persuades Lulu to relinquish all...
